Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-13
LINGG's
She Commends Her Lovers Suicide-Giv-
Ing Her Money To LinGg.

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She Commends Her Lovers s~uicide-Giv-
ing Her Money to Lingg.
CHICAGO, ILL, November 10.-lda
Friedel, "Liugg's GIRL" was tound in
her home in the basement of No. 32S
Wells street to-night.s She appeared
strangely undisturbed and smiled when
the question was asked: "Are you aware
of what Lingg has done with himself?'
ooh, yes, l know all about it. There
is the 4rJetcr Zeiung, she replied COM
pletely uncOncerned.
"Well, what do you think of it,"
"Idon't thin X al all. Lingg, always
thought, was q rssolute fellow, that's all. ,
DO YOU thi nix he did right in killing
himself"
81 think it is better 20 die as Lingg died
than to he haEged-to helplessly allow
himself to he dragged to the gallows and
10 &c! choked to Geath."
"Will you write his mother about his
death?"
"No; | don't know her, and don't care
to. It's none of my business. | am no
relation to Lingg. ! cannot see why his
death should concern me more than others.
[ don't care to ne bothered about it any
longer"
The girl abruptly retired to the kitchen.
In spite of her efforts she could scarcely
keep up the air Of uuconcern assumed, and
broke down the moment she was behind
the door, sObhing loudly as il her heart
would break.
IDA'S MOTHER.
Miss Friedel, Lingg's sweetheart, is the
daught, of Mrs. Magdeliue Won Hutton,
! of No. 1923 Wells street. Mrs. Won Hut
ton il a very stout, motherly-loOking
woman about 45, aud has two younger
daughters and three sons in addition TO
Ida, or Elsie. The long talk with Mr..
and Mrs. Won Hutton disclosed the fact
that the lady had been married twice, her
first hush nd's name Icing Friedel, Elsie,
the eldest daughter, and three other
daughters being the result of this mar
.iage. The whole family cIme to Chicago
In August, 1886, when Mr. Won Hutton,
who, by the way, is a descendant Of the
celebrated Gen. Won Hutton, Thought DO
BODY would suspect il after looking al
him, opened a barber. shop on a small
street off CiybOlrue avenue. Elsie, VINO
at this time was = very good girl, went
out 10 service AZ did her two younger sig
ters. The family made the acquaintance
of Mrs. Muench. WHO came from the same
part of Germany as did Louis Lingg. With
lhat llfy mother and daughter visited the
Jail, where he susceptible Miss succumbed
to the glowing bushy hair ard other at
fractions Of the bomb-mqker, who has
ever since been her only and ideal herC.
Tn remainder is best narrated in the
mothers di>ioint5d sentences: Elsie has
been the torment Of my life since then
See lsft ser vice and got employment at
shoe work so that she could visit Der lover
twice a day. Her step. father aud all Of
"a would talk and reason with her, but We
might as well talk TO a WALL
GIVING HER MONEY TO LINGG
Every dollar she earned she spent on
Louis Lingg, and never gave me 4 cent on
her board for over a year. Every morning
she would cook him dainty dishes, cakes
with plenty of eggs in them, and buy q
bottle of wine on the way down. No won
der Lingg got fat. Elsie was crazy about
him. lie used to tell her ne would never
be hung and at the worst would only go to
prison for a short while, and that be
would marry her as soon as be was free.
She believed everything he told her and
would have chopped off her right hand to
give to him if it could do him any good"
Did you ever 20 to the Jail with your
daughter" was asked.
Five or six times only, until | found |
could not cute my girl of her foolish craze,
and l let her alone. Time and time agaiu
We have scOlded her. Once or twice she
had her things packed up to leave NJ, and
to-day she left in the morning, and may
go to stay with some Of the friends of the
Anarchists, for all know.n
what do you think OF Lingg?"
"Ialways thought him crazy iwerTuckt).
He could never keep still n moment. His
eyes and fingers were always working, and
if he was not To be banged he should be
put in a lunatic asvlnm but he would
soon manage to get his bombs in there, /
suppose. The crazy fool, to get bombs
into his cell, where many a life would
have been sacrificed if they had not been
found"
How did your daughter take the last
trick Of her lOyer?"
''OI she cried aud went on ~dreadfully
for hours, and seemed almost ont OF her
senses. Some of the newspapers, ! hear,
have said that Elise took those bombs into
the Jail. They oughtn't to say such things;
She always believed that Lingg would
never be hanged, and tried, mp to the very
last time she saw him, to persuade him to
sign the petition, but he would not listen
to her. She says that he would not hear
of it at all, and would turn away when
she asked him to do il for her sake. Heis
a crazy villain, and the sooner he's made
au end Of the better"